Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marriage. The fantastic post-revolutionary myth of "nationalization of Russian women" has now definitely been dispelled. Marriage and divorce are accomplished by a simple, cheap, expeditious ceremony before a government official. The desires of the parties concerned are the only factors considered...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
News came from Bucharest last week that the Soviet Russian radio stations at Moscow and Odessa are now broadcasting nightly criticisms of the Rumanian Government in Rumanian and appealing to Rumanian listeners-in to foment a revolt. Vexed, War Minister Mircescu has countered by ordering the Rumanian military radio station to send out "a terrific buzzing" whenever the Soviet Russian stations begin to broadcast...
Died. Jacob Islamoff, onetime Lieutenant in the onetime Imperial Russian Navy, airplane mechanic; at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I., in the crash of Captain René Fonck's giant Sikorsky plane...
Twelve sons of Islam carried the 600-pound red, leaden coffin containing his body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears...